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Used Books : Marking Readers in Renaissance England /
From the Publisher: In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009, c2008.
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| Edición: | 1st paperback ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Part 1: Of Marks And Methods
- 1: Introduction: Used books
- 2: Toward a history of the manicule
- 3: Reading the matriarchive
- Part 2: Reading And Religion
- 4: Book thus put in every vulgar hand: marking the Bible
- 5: Uncommon book of common prayer
- Part 3: Remarkable Readers
- 6: John Dee's Columbian encounter
- 7: Sir Julius Caesar's search engine
- Part 4: Renaissance Readers And Modern Collectors
- 8: Dirty books? attitudes toward readers' marks
- Afterword: Future of past readers
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.